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What You Need to Know About Parkinson’s and In-Home Care

Comfort Home Care

In this article, we share vital information about Parkinson’s Disease, the role in-home care can have in managing its challenges, and the qualities to seek in an in-home care provider. Living with Parkinson’s Disease presents numerous challenges, but you don’t have to face them alone.

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10 Questions to ask when looking for a home care software platform

AlayaCare

How easily does your system make it for you to see if caregivers are completing activities of daily living (ADLs) on-site? Can you easily export data out of your current system to inform business decisions (i.e., All completed tasks are date and time-stamped within the system for full stakeholder visibility.

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The Secret is Out: Hospice Recertification Made Easy!

Hospice Nurse Hero

Please read full disclosure for more information. You’re like the detective gathering all the clues ( information ) from the past several months to support changes in the patient’s condition. You can also use the information from your admission and previous interdisciplinary group (IDG) meetings to help you document.

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Beyond compensation: How home care agencies can add value for caregivers

AlayaCare

No paper or timesheets : Well-designed software means caregivers never have to manually record any client information or drive to the office to clock in or out. Real-time information and communication: No more dealing with lost forms, incomplete information, or unknown situations.

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How To Paint the Picture:10 Better Words to Chart

Hospice Nurse Hero

Requires assistance with ADLs. Disease-Specific Declines: Each condition presents unique markers of decline. This can include worsening symptoms, decreased functional status, or increased dependence on ADLs. Subjective Data: This information comes from your patients, families, caregivers, and friends. Denies pain.

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Hospice Documentation What You Need to Know

Hospice Nurse Hero

Please read full disclosur e for more information. As a hospice nurse, you should: Document at the bedside : First to ensure accuracy then to make sure the team has the information they need to care for the patient. ( Chart all calls: Phone calls and triage notes inform the team. This post may contain affiliate links.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. Lynn: If they need to go somewhere and receive ADL support and supportive care at the same time, there’s no mechanism to pay for that. We need that information. This information is so vital. Sarguni: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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